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Gold/Mining/Energy : Global Platinum & Gold (GPGI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scott Wheeler who wrote (6968)	8/12/1998 8:02:00 PM
From: JACK R. SMITH JR.	Respond to of 14226

Scott, Your example of the intelligent 12 year old reminds me of another story. This fellow broke down in front of an insane asylum. One of his wheels had lost all its lugs and fallen off the car. While the fellow jacked up the car and scratched his head, and inmate walked up and sat quietly watching. The fellow looked at him and asked "any ideas". The inmate replied "why do you not take one lug from the other three wheels and put the missing wheel back on?" The fellow replied "hey, that is brilliant, what are you doing in here?". The inmate replied "mister, I am crazy, not stupid!" I have pondered the question of operation without the ball mill and I come to the conclusion that they are most probably processing stockpiled "dore". Could be from returns from Auric, or elsewhere. That is only an assumption on my part and I have no news from them. I think that perhaps our suggestions may have merit from time to time and I remember posting about very efficient resin adsorption a long time ago. I also remember a post about multiple exposure of the ore to leachant solutions and some work done by Stan Wardle on that subject. If we are not getting 100 percent from the ore, then it should be piled for potential future processing. A further question that I have is what are they doing with the copper. Is it being precipitated and recycled? Recycler, Jack

To: Scott Wheeler who wrote (6968)	8/13/1998 11:37:00 AM
From: Ed Fishbaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14226

Scott, I cannot see any advantage to a deal with Maxam. Ball mills are cheap and anyway the GPGI mill will be repaired soon. Can Maxam bring money to the deal? They are broke. Can they bring technology? Their resin rpocess doesn't work Gpgi's does. Can they bring ore reserves? . Maxam's is like IPM's, potentially commercial but Global's ore is much richer. Also, Global's reserves, other than the Hassayampa, are practically infinite. If Maxam wants to use Global's proprietary process will they split the profits with Global? If so maybe a deal could be struck but only down the line after Global is in large scale prodction. Regards, Ed

To: Scott Wheeler who wrote (6968)	8/13/1998 12:49:00 PM
From: Anthony Zack	Respond to of 14226

Scott, I like your idea about testing a "loaner" mill. If they have plans for expansion, getting a loaner to use while the other mill is down serves multiple purposes. My feeling is that it would take longer to get a loaner up and running than it would to fix the one they have. I also feel that milling the ore is not a critical go no/go step. I think the process still works with un-milled ore, just not as well. I also think that since the mill was not a bottleneck, they most likely made a pile of crushed ore while they waited for the resin columns to extract the goodies. I borrowed this milling concept and applied it at the local grocery store. I was grinding coffee one day and noticed that the grinder had finer settings than the one I was using. I thought if finer grinding makes a more efficient leach for GPGI, it might work for more efficient coffee brewing. Grinding on the "Turkish Blend" setting results in better tasting coffee and allows you to use about 12% less coffee than the "auto drip" setting. BTW, the finer grounds still get trapped by the filter. Java Tony